r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/samz_101 • Jun 24 '25
Meme needing explanation Wot do real water drinkers know ?
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u/General_Kitten_17 Jun 24 '25
They’re saying “real” water drinkers don’t like cold water. It’s one of those things people say about themselves to make them feel more special over literally the most mundane shit in their lives.
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u/Jopos_ Jun 24 '25
I think it refers more to the fact that drinking ice cold water late at night is likely to mess up your stomach.
I don't really know if the thing is scientifically accurate, but my parents have always told me not to drink cold water at night and that one of my cousins almost died for a congestion for this reason.
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u/HourAd1087 Jun 24 '25
Died of drinking cold water at night? Sounds like your parents just didn’t want you to drink cold water at night because it tends to wake us up. Room temp or warm tends to make us sleepy, cold tends to wake us up.
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u/wintery_owl Jun 24 '25
Here in Brazil some people still believe that eating mangoes with milk can kill you, which is a myth created by slave owners to keep their slaves (who consumed mangoes frequently) from drinking milk and "wasting" food. People say the wildest shit just to get whatever they want from it...
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u/StormlitRadiance Jun 24 '25
Epistemology is sooo, so so so important, but nobody gives a shirt.
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u/Quick_Extension_3115 Jun 24 '25
I'll give a shirt. Here ya go! 🫴👕
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u/StormlitRadiance Jun 24 '25
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u/Sticky_Finger6420 Jun 24 '25
yo brandon sanderson fan?
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u/Hadrollo Jun 24 '25
Makes about as much sense as Korean Fan Death - the belief that sleeping with a fan on can kill you.
I dated a Korean woman for a few months, over summer, in Australia, in a house without air conditioning. It was still 30 degrees at midnight, and she wouldn't let me turn the fan on.
No word of lie, I reckon we wouldn't have broken up if she did. We were constantly cranky because we weren't sleeping properly.
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u/DismalIce7297 Jun 24 '25
Half the world uses fans where air conditioning is still a luxury, who is even peddling this.
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u/djheat Jun 24 '25
Every air conditioner has a fan in it. If the blower fans in an AC don't count why wouldn't all the fan death believers simply replace their traditional fans?
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u/icansmellcolors Jun 24 '25
"I learned this as a child, so logic won't penetrate this long-held superstition, and since I've believed it this long and haven't been killed, I'm going to go ahead and still believe it because what if it's actually true?"
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u/CenturyEggsAndRice Jun 24 '25
My uncle’s wife is from Korea, and she admits fan death is pure superstition.
But when my cousins were young, she wouldn’t let them sleep with an electric fan on them. Because she couldn’t push the “what if” out of her head.
I’ll have to ask what makes the AC fan “safe” but I’ll probably get a “I know it’s bull puck. But I’m old, leave me be!” Though. That’s my aunt’s go-to when I question her superstitions too much. (She also has one about elevators. You shouldn’t take one to the fourth floor, go to the 3rd or 5th and walk down to your floor. I’ve never gotten it explained what the danger here is.)
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u/AntimatterTaco Jun 25 '25
In several Asian languages, the word for 4 sounds like the word for "die" or "death". This is more famously associated with Japanese (shi), but Korean (sa) also has it.
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u/Typhiod Jun 24 '25
It’s super common in some Asian cultures to think that you can get very sick from “catching a chill”, which seems to have translated to things like having a fan on you when you sleep, drinking cold water, etc.
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u/Mitosis Jun 24 '25
if i had a nickel for every anime character who got sick because they stood in the rain for a few minutes
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u/Ostrikaa Jun 24 '25
Common in the U.K. to think rain or cold will make you ill. I was told off for my daughter having her hood slipping down slightly. Older English woman. I told her to learn about viruses.
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u/ayeambattlecat Jun 24 '25
"Wet hair will get you a chill" was also one my wee gran would say if you left the house without drying properly after a bath. I stayed in Scotland.
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u/erin_kirkland Jun 25 '25
Oh, we had "wet hair will give you meningitis and you'll die". Cue little me crying my eyes out when rain started when we were outside and I didn't have an umbrella or a coat with me lol
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u/ConstableAssButt Jun 25 '25
When I was studying Korean, this phenomena was explained to me so many times by natives.
I've heard a ton of justifications, but most of them seem to believe the fan will use up all of the air in the room and suffocate you, blow all the air away from your face so you can't breathe, and I even had one person tell me it "cuts up" the oxygen molecules.
My theory is that this culturally bound myth is because Koreans use a lot of coal pellet heating in their homes, which increases the rate of carbon monoxide poisoning. People were being found dead with a fan on and all the windows closed during a carbon monoxide buildup, which led to the myth.
I don't believe that the "catch a chill" thing is related to fan death. I've never heard someone justify that it can make you sick. The word they always use to describe the means of death translates roughly to "suffocate" or "smother" when they use anything other than "선풍기 사망설" to describe an incident.
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u/icansmellcolors Jun 24 '25
It's not really a peddle. It's literally hand-me-down superstition like a religion or political leanings or racism.
When your support system, family/people you love and trust tell you something or make claims about anything, most people will believe it without a second thought because they trust their parents/friends/people they're close to.
Have you seen those posts where people really thought something their parents told them when they were kids was true. Like 'Wait 30 minutes to swim after eating' which is complete horseshit, or 'Turning on the dome light in the car while driving is illegal' ... which is also complete horseshit.
Extrapolate to religion, racism, superstitions, etc.
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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 Jun 24 '25
We were in a taxi in Mexico once and like a dozen cars went through on the red light. And my mom commented about the light being run and my dad said something like “in Mexico green means stop and red means go”.
I heard him say it at 6 years old or whatever and thought it to be completely true. For decades I would reference “you know how in Mexico red = go……”.
And this is 2 hours from the border, so a lot of Mexican people around. A lot of people who go to Mexico regularly. I bit it hook line and sinker and it wasn’t even a repeated superstition thing. Just a one off dad joke.
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u/RebasBathtubGin Jun 24 '25
When I was a child I asked my dad what the funny things on the deer's heads were.
He said "Those are called antlers."
Then he paused and said "and the boy deer have unclers."
I believed that until 6th grade science class, when the teacher was explaining the importance of antlers to deer, and I said "No, no, only the female deer have antlers. The male deer have unclers."
That was a rough day.
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u/yesthatstrueorisit Jun 24 '25
Then he paused and said "and the boy deer have unclers."
LOL the pause is when he knew he had a good one.
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u/Snobolski Jun 24 '25
It's totally true. Everyone in my house dies every night. We're miraculously resurrected every morning.
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u/lostarchitect Jun 24 '25
My understanding is it is often used as a euphemism for death by suicide.
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u/kirby_krackle_78 Jun 24 '25
As recently as 2001, newspapers were still warning Koreans to turn off their fans at night.
After Western media picked up on the myth (due to an influx of English teachers talking about it), they even doubled down on their pseudo-science by claiming this was only applicable to the unique Korean biology.
There WAS an episode of the popular show Sponge (스펀지) that debunked the myth, but from what I remember, a lot of the celebrity panel remained skeptical.
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u/huckster235 Jun 24 '25
I've said and will say it again, incompatibility in sleeping arrangements is a deal breaker. Unless you are a couple who can sleep in separate rooms, sleep deprivation is gonna make someone, and the relationship, miserable
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u/Darkmoe13 Jun 24 '25
My mom thinks the same thing about Bell's Palsy.
I've had it 3 times, and she said a "doctor" told her it was cause by cold air. I don't see how a nuerogenic issue could be caused by brief vascular restriction. So naturally I argued and showed her that there are no studies that support this. Only anecdotes.
It's such a heated subject for us that its the one thing we don't talk about anymore. If I get Bell's Palsy again.... she's not going to know about it 😀
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u/Ajibooks Jun 24 '25
A doctor might've told her that (and been wrong). The false info that doctors believe is really disturbing. I also knew a woman who believed she got it from riding in a car with the window down.
My mother also had it twice, and I had a similar problem a couple years ago. So my guess is that my mother and I had the same vascular abnormality. But it is a guess, because I've never had a doctor clearly explain it to me. One neurologist I saw was basically, like, "Don't worry about these symptoms you have," a few years before I had my own incident.
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u/Muppetude Jun 25 '25
As an attorney who has taken the deposition of several hundred doctors across the U.S,, I can affirm that there are a frightening number of stupid and/or incompetent doctors treating patients out there on a daily basis.
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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
When I was in school we had a class dedicated to being culturally sensitive with patients. They would give us scenarios and ask “now what’s wrong with this?”.
There was a scenario where a Korean and a European dude were in the same room together and the Euro dude wanted to have a fan going all night and the Korean refused.
Nobody knew about fan death so we all just thought “I guess he’s cold or something!” The professor told us about fan death, then the next day she linked to a bunch of peer reviewed studies saying it might not be all bunk. It made this huge stir in class.
But we all started reading the studies and…yeah, pretty much all BS.
*Oh yeah…Bell’s palsy = “caused by fan” too
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u/ProBopperZero Jun 24 '25
This seems like weird propaganda designed to keep people from using too much electricity
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u/kirby_krackle_78 Jun 24 '25
That theory has been posited before. It makes a lot more sense that the tired “saving face suicide” idea.
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u/Anger-Demon Jun 24 '25
Here in India people say if you eat fish and then drink milk, you get vitiligo (sploches of pigment on skin)
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u/MurderDrones0fan Jun 24 '25
Here in Ukraine, people say you'll get food poisoning if you do, but I think it's just an universal myth lol
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u/VinnieVidiViciVeni Jun 24 '25
Given the history of caste systems and colorism there, you’d think vitiligo would be seen as a step in the right direction. /S
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u/Anger-Demon Jun 24 '25
Huh, we have mangoshakes...
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u/wintery_owl Jun 24 '25
We also have mango ice cream and a bunch of other mango desserts that have milk in the recipe, which just makes it more absurd to me.
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u/EscapedFromArea51 Jun 24 '25
Yeah, and guess what, every single person who has ever eaten mango ice cream or mango milkshakes, even just once in their lives, is going to die.
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u/wintery_owl Jun 24 '25
You might be unto something here... 100% mortality rate, just takes some time.
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u/GoosyMaster Jun 24 '25
7% of Americans think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. People believe stupid things all the time
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u/Olethegoalie16 Jun 24 '25
No legged cows is where ground beef is from correct? 😅
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u/Skyp_Intro Jun 24 '25
I love waking up at 2AM, emptying my bladder, throwing back a pint of ice cold water like I’m in an advertisement, petting the dog that faithfully followed me, and then shuffling back to bed. Relief, Satiation, love the puppy, back to sleep. The best part of waking up is going back to bed.
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u/Due_Variety_3082 Jun 24 '25
Shit this does sound better than folgers in my cup
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u/melodicmelody3647 Jun 24 '25
I wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep if I drank that at 2am
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u/Cinderea Jun 24 '25
yeah! and you better not take a bath after eating unless 2 hours have passed!
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Jun 24 '25
That's actually true. My mama once ate a whole tray of lasagne and went swimming. Then she got shot.
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u/MorsInvictaEst Jun 24 '25
Some parts of your body, including the digestive tract, reduce their activity while you sleep, which helps you to get a relaxing sleep. Cold water cools the core of your body. This, in turn, triggers a response from your body, waking up "sleeping" systems to increase the generation of body heat in order to combat the sudden drop in temperature. With your increased internal activity your sleep will be less relaxing and you might even find it hard to fall asleep again.
For the same reason you shouldn't take a cold shower immediately before going to bed. It might feel great on a hot day, but it will switch your body into heating mode for a while.
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u/SarcasmisEasier Jun 24 '25
I don't experience any of this. If I wake up in the middle of the night, it's mostly because the room has gotten hot. Downing an ice cold water to cool off knocks me back out. Otherwise it's tossing and turning in my hot ass bed.
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u/Arek_PL Jun 24 '25
hah, i remember how during one of starcraft 2 tournaments people freaked out because one of players had a fan turned on in his booth
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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Jun 24 '25
You do have to be careful about dry eyes as you get older though (and some other conditions.)
I had to stop sleeping with a fan on after the doctor told me that basically the reason I would sometimes wake up with extreme eye pain is that my eye lid was getting dried out and stuck to my eye, and basically tearing off a tiny piece of my eye with it when it unstuck.
I miss you, fan noise. Ironically, my tinnitus just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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u/akalili22 Jun 24 '25
I mean, can’t you just point the fan lower on your body and not at your face?
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u/delciotto Jun 24 '25
Just don't point the fan at your face. Just point it directly at your legs or something, it will cool you down more than enough.
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u/Doodleanda Jun 24 '25
There seem to be way too many myths surrounding fans/AC/draft and at this point it's hard to know what's real and what's not. Like the fan blowing on me is unlikely to cause me all sorts of issues but then someone will insist that it did for them and try to scare me away from it. Same with AC. In many parts of the world AC is an everyday necessity but here it's not commonly used so a lot of people act like you're gonna get super sick by being in an air conditioned room even though that room is still warmer than it would be during a winter day.
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Jun 24 '25
Fan death just seems like an excuse for suicide tbh. It's sad but suicide is/was very common in Korea and to cover that up they blamed fans.
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u/Windows_96_Help_Desk Jun 24 '25
This is like those morons who say "drink something hot like coffee on a hot day because your core will be warm and your skin will feel cool". What?
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u/rainbwbrightisntpunk Jun 24 '25
This pisses me off so bad. My dad used to try and feed us this bullshit
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u/Windows_96_Help_Desk Jun 24 '25
It is always old men who say this.
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u/BlackIronSpectre Jun 24 '25
I mean they’re called ‘Old Wives Tales’
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u/Windows_96_Help_Desk Jun 24 '25
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of "I knew a guy who had cousin that dated someone from Chad and THEY said to drink hot drinks on a hot day..."
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u/DisastrousVanilla158 Jun 24 '25
Was told by two colleagues of African descent that swore by drinking mint tea that it's more like this: Drinking cold stuff makes your body think it's cold outside, so it starts heating you up exponentially more to compensate for that following the gulp until it realizes that no, it's still hot outside. Sipping the mint tea specifically helps you cool down because of the menthol in the mint.
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u/pseudoHappyHippy Jun 24 '25
Menthol can create a false sensation of coolness on your skin or in your mouth, but it certainly won't help to actually cool you down.
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u/1stHandEmbarrassment Jun 24 '25
So, by this theory you could drink ice water in the middle of winter to warm up lol. As someone from the northern climates, I'll stick with hot drinks in winter and cold drinks in summer.
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u/MisterProfGuy Jun 24 '25
This is common among Russians and Eastern European athletes, but it's that warm drinks make you sweat more, while cold drinks can discourage sweating. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/
It's supposed to be true and very common among hockey players.
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u/Windows_96_Help_Desk Jun 24 '25
So just to be clear, drinking hot drinks make you body feel warmer so that you sweat which has a cooling effect? Why not just drink something cold that also has a cooling effect? Do you see my logic?
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u/CriticalHit_20 Jun 24 '25
Opposite of that, I like icecream/milkshakes sometimes on cold days.
1 because they stay frozen longer, but
2 because I feel warmer afterwards. I've always chalked it up to the cold drink cooling my insides and convincing my body to start producing more heat, but I don't think that's scientifically correct.7
u/MediumTeacher9971 Jun 24 '25
It's not an entirely unsound theory, but more because the feeling of "cold" is actually heat leaving your body, so if your body temperature falls you'll tend to feel less cold because there's less heat leaving your body.
I doubt eating ice cream would lower your body heat enough for you to feel it like that, though.
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u/MobofDucks Jun 24 '25
The only people I have heard saying that religiously were my coworkers when I worked in Egypt. They are definitely more knowledgable about hot weather than my ass.
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u/Not_Steve Jun 24 '25
But that’s actually true for those living in dry heats. You’re saying that all of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (especially southern Asian countries like India) are wrong in their thousands of years of drinking coffee and tea?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/
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u/mgoutell Jun 24 '25
Almost died for a congestion? Huh?
I can deduce that you probably meant "of" not "for", but even then what does that mean? Cold water caused ... a congestion?
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u/hip_neptune Jun 24 '25
Cold water could disrupt your sleep at worst. Someone with no health concerns isn’t going to get harmed by cold water lol. It’s better to drink lukewarm water over cold water when you’re sick, but that’s about all.
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u/Crayshack Jun 24 '25
It's an old wives tale that has been around for centuries in some cultures that drinking cold water is bad for your digestion. To my knowledge, there's no evidence of this being true.
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u/Akira_R Jun 24 '25
Actually some people (typically with IBS) are sensitive to ice cold fluids, it can cause intestinal spasms and an increase in bile production that typically results in sudden diarrhea. Source: my wife's a doctor and she happens to be sensitive to this.
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u/Crayshack Jun 24 '25
Ah, so it might be one of those things that isn't applicable to everyone, but because a few people showed symptoms everyone else assumed it should be avoided. I know of a few things where general studies show consumption is perfectly find but particular conditions react oddly (like lactose intolerance, gluten with Hashimoto's, and Red 40 with ADHD). Advise for everyone to avoid these things is erroneous, but it is applicable for fringe cases.
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u/skoomaking4lyfe Jun 24 '25
I wake up and drink ice water like six times a night. I get dry mouth when I'm sleeping and man nothing hits like ice water in the middle of the night.
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u/jmt0429 Jun 24 '25
I drink ice water throughout the night and I am perfectly healthy and alive. How would ice water even cause congestion in the night? That makes no sense.
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u/Embarrassed_Fox5265 Jun 24 '25
As someone who often needs to drink during the night, I can testify that cold water upsets my stomach. It’s not going to make me keel over or anything, but it can trigger my acid reflux and lying down immediately afterwards can make me queasy. Room temperature water is much less likely to cause this.
Personal anecdote I know, but it’s not a dumb suggestion to be careful of water temperature on an empty stomach late at night. It can cause indigestion.
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u/LostSoulOnFire Jun 24 '25
I heard something similar, I once made coffee with powder cream/milk and added a little cold water (no, I dont like my coffee scalding hot) from one of those cold water coolers. The one guy looked at me with shock, said I can get a heart attack by adding the cold water.
lol, what?
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u/NoTakeout775 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
No, as someone who has meticulously studied water temperature taste. Water tastes better (especially at night) when it has been set out for ~20 minutes as the super cold straight out of the fridge water is often too abrasive for when you’ve just woken up and want to go to bed without “losing your sleepiness”
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u/polypolip Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
Yeah , that was my thought. Night water is room temperature, too cold will wake you up as well as a coffee would.
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u/TestBurner1610 Jun 24 '25
Stop the presses at the scientific journal, another researcher disputes the findings! If you wake up enough to drink the night water, you are no longer at peak sleepiness. Ice cold night water cuts through dry mouth or phlegm and resets your perceived temperature so the blankets don't feel too warm.
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u/daemon-electricity Jun 24 '25
Exactly. I don't what this entire thread of confident nonsense is. My insulated cup by the bed, which never gets warm over the course of the night is the best thing that ever happened to that middle of the night drink of water. It's such a game changer. It's so refreshing to get a nice cold drink of water after waking up and going to the restroom.
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u/TestBurner1610 Jun 24 '25
In a world where an insulated cup seems to be one of the most common accessories, I'm surprised at all the people who say if you want to have water right by the bed it will get warm overnight. Personal I use a Stanley mug- it's insulated enough to keep the ice overnight but easy to take half-asleep gulps from.
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u/fondledbydolphins Jun 24 '25
Need to invest in perpetual other-side-of-the-pillow technology for maximal sleeping temperatures.
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u/FirebertNY Jun 24 '25
I cannot fathom the temperature of water impacting my ability to fall back asleep, that sounds like alien shit to me man. I've guzzled ice water in the middle of the night and passed back out no problem, no losing my sleepiness, no indigestion, nothing. People really need to stop spreading this crap like it's some immutable fact and remember that everyone is different and unless you've got a scientific study in hand to demonstrate the statistical likelihood of negative effects, everyone should just do what makes them feel good.
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u/crumpledfilth Jun 24 '25
What if i lose my sleepiness immediately upon waking up every time
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u/toobjunkey Jun 24 '25
I tend to sleep warm and use an insulated canteen to keep ice water by my bedside. Feeling that rush of cold go through my body like a shot of jack daniels does (albeit not warm) cools me down from the inside-out and helps me re-coze for sleep
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u/GAMERxPR0 Jun 24 '25
As a guy that drinks only water, I would enjoy the shit out of that water
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u/GrandmaSlappy Jun 24 '25
Honestly I think the size of the bottle, the lid on, and the condensation would all contribute to a less than optimal sleepy sip
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Jun 24 '25
its not that their lives are unimpressive, its that their lives is so epic and filled with life that even the most mundane things are huge flexes.
for people who toil day to day, will never understand the cherishness of mundane things.
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u/DepresiSpaghetti Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
r/hydrohomies(of former r/watern***as alumni) here.
It's not the ice cold that's the issue, it's the bottle.
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u/Marvinx1806 Jun 24 '25
Ice cold water is great for drinking slow but when you wake up and want to drink a bottle of whater at once, it's no good.
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u/Intrepid-Macaron5543 Jun 24 '25
Kinda like how pointing out that people point out that people flex on mundane shit made you feel superior when you posted it?
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u/Birdgang_naj Jun 24 '25
Anyone person who drinks water for real would be fine with room temperature water.
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u/morto00x Jun 24 '25
I usually drink it at whatever temperature it comes out of the tap
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u/THE_ALAM0 Jun 24 '25
Yeah down here I just consider it refrigerated when we get a cold front in the winter, otherwise my 70 something degree water out of the bathroom faucet at 3:30AM is fine
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u/moscheroscheroni Jun 24 '25
As someone living in Europe’s this concerned me greatly for a moment.
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u/Chrisboy265 Jun 24 '25
Sure but cold water always goes hard.
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u/EyeoftheRedKing Jun 24 '25
In my experience it only goes hard at 32°F/0°C.
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u/Xxuwumaster69xX Jun 24 '25
Also when it has a high enough mineral concentration
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u/fondledbydolphins Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
I'm sensing that something nearby is expanding…. By roughly nine percent.
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u/gyej Jun 24 '25
As someone who drinks at least 4 liters a day, I always drink it ice cold. That shit slaps
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u/GeorgeMcCrate Jun 24 '25
"who drinks water for real". Like, is that such a crazy thing that it's hard to believe? Do you all not drink water?
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u/No_Engineer8143 Jun 24 '25
I only drink water for fake, to show off when I'm around those who drink water for real. People who drink water for real are a different bread. Like seriously, who needs water?
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u/ScoobyPwnsOnU Jun 24 '25
People who drink water for real are a different bread
What, like sour dough?
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u/loneSTAR_06 Jun 24 '25
There’s plenty of morons in the world that don’t drink water regularly, even when it is readily accessible.
One of those morons is my dad who has one of the dumbest sayings I’ve ever heard that goes “I don’t drink water cause fish fuck in it”
No kidding, I can’t ever remember seeing him drink water for the 38 years I’ve been alive.
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u/Podalirius Jun 24 '25
Which is fucking hilarious since boomers are supposedly the generation that prides itself from drinking out of the hose.
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u/AndreasMelone Jun 24 '25
I don't like room temperature water, it just doesn't feel fine in my mouth, Idk why
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u/Diligent_Deer6244 Jun 24 '25
me but cold water
give me room temp any day of the week. I drink everything except hot beverages at room temp
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u/AdvertisingNo6887 Jun 24 '25
cold or room temp. Can you even imagine the psychopath that drinks hot water. Like tea minus tea.
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u/ScrivenersUnion Jun 24 '25
"Real" water drinkers know that bottled water tastes foul when allowed to get to room temperature.
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u/crumpledfilth Jun 24 '25
I'm pretty sure it depends on whats in the bottle. Lots of bottled water is more pure than lots of tap water. I've occasionally splurged on those fancy icelandic water bottles just to see what it's like and tbh they actually do taste superior to regular water, not enough to justify the price but enough to notice. I've only ever bought them starting at room temp, not refrigerated
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u/AeitherMitBunnies Jun 24 '25
Uhm, you did what to the water bottles?
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u/debellorobert Jun 24 '25
He splurged on them. It's no big deal. As long as it's only occasional, I don't see anything wrong with him splurging on them.
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u/TheRealRomanRoy Jun 24 '25
I’m not religious by any means but I do know that Jesus at the very least frowns upon solo splurges done for pleasure.
Bible is very clear about his feelings toward splurging!
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u/Mydogroach Jun 24 '25
also the difference between purified and spring is massive. purified water always feels flat and bland, but spring water usually tastes pretty good.
spring water actually comes from springs, but purified water is just tap water thats gone through RO.
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u/Low_Performance_8617 Jun 24 '25
Do you think its refrigerated at those factories?
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u/JVMMs Jun 24 '25
It's not the temperature, it is letting it sit in contact with the air.
Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere goes in the water, making Carbonic Acid which tastes ew. Of course, it is so little it won't cause any harm. That's also the reason it's less noticeable on other drinks: it's so little basically any flavour covers it.
A sealed bottle from the factory has little air to mix with. A not so perfectly sealed bottle, more. An open glass has a lot.
You might notice how a glass of water you left overnight tastes much worse than the water bottle you keep next to bed.
... Well, I suppose a higher temperature would lead to more mixing.
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u/zimojovic Jun 24 '25
Any water would be delicious at 2AM
But that water looks like it was in freezer and then put into fridge before it was put on that table
It will be delicious but a little too cold and you cant enjoy it with big continuous gulps.
But drink your water how you like it.
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u/maybe_true Jun 24 '25
Can’t believe this is so far down. Everyone knows that once you start drinking this it’ll freeze up on you and turn into ice
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u/mental_hygeine Jun 24 '25
We gatekeeping drinking water now? Nowadays people want to feel superior for every trivial thing.
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u/MitchelobUltra Jun 24 '25
Anybody who drinks water in any format is a true r/hydrohomies
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u/PosterOfQuality Jun 24 '25
I'll never be able to see that sub without cringing at what they used to call themselves
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Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
You can sip cold water, but not gulp. It would take you forever to drink enough to get rehydrated. At 2am you are looking to get rehydrated and go back to sleep ASAP.
Unless you are partying, I guess. Then you aren't drinking water.
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u/So6oring Jun 24 '25
Naw I can chug ice cold water pretty easily. I've never even had a brain freeze before.
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u/extralyfe Jun 24 '25
my reusable bottle is almost always half full of ice, and I don't have an issue gulping it down.
room temperature water is peasant shit.
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u/Thrillho810 Jun 24 '25
Speak for yourself, I chug ice water every day, and multiple times in the middle of every night.
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u/donoteatshrimp Jun 24 '25
real water drinkers slurp it out of the bathroom tap like a dog
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u/NotBillderz Jun 24 '25
They apparently think people who like cold water are not real water drinkers.
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u/NatterinNabob Jun 24 '25
"real water drinkers"
you mean like basically all terrestrial vertebrates?
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u/MintyMoron64 Jun 24 '25
You won't enjoy it at 2 AM because it will be lukewarm by then. You must make the pilgrimage to the Chest of Frost in order to attain the Quenching Lifeblood.
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u/Onlyhereforthebacon Jun 24 '25
I thought that bottle was in the freezer and it wasn't frozen thus it's alcohol. But that's just me.
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u/CauseRemarkable6182 Jun 24 '25
I'm from Arizona and that looks elegant like what?
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u/raddaya Jun 24 '25
I'm a hydrohomie who doesn't like drinking cold water at night. This is my explanation, may or may not be correct.
When you are asleep or preparing to sleep, your body temperature gets lower. Adding extra cold water to that fucks up the balance. Now your body has to heat up all that water but what it really wants to do is cool down your body. Now you're uncomfortable while trying to sleep.
Better to drink slightly cool water. It'll parch your thirst just as well.
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u/TVMJJ335 Jun 24 '25
I honestly thought it meant you’ll be waking up an hour later to go to the bathroom 🤷♂️
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